Abner Negotiates Peace with David

2 Samuel 3:12-16

Abner therefore sent messengers to David for himself, saying: Whose is the land? and that they should say: Make a league with me, and my hand shall be with thee: and I will bring all Israel to thee.

And he said: Very well: I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, saying: Thou shalt not see my face before thou bring Michol the daughter of Saul: and so thou shalt come, and see me.

And David sent messengers to Isboseth the son of Saul, saying: Restore my wife Michol, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

And Isboseth sent, and took her from her husband Phaltiel, the son of Lais.

And her husband followed her, weeping as far as Bahurim: and Abner said to him: Go and return. And he returned.

Abner Negotiates Peace with David

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